High heel for shoes.



1. L. VAN NESS.,

HIGH HEEL FOR SHOES. APPLICATION FILED APR. 27. 1911.

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ATTORNEY.

forth in the JOHN L. VAN NESS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGN OR TO WICHERT & G-ARDINER,

OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK,

A FIRM.

HIGH HEEL FOR SHOES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 27, 1917. Serf 11 N 0. 164,843.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN L. VAN hires, a citizen of the United States, and residing in the borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in High Heels for Shoes, of which the following is a full and complete specification.

My inwantion relates to an improvement in high heels forshoes, and has for its object to devise a method of making such heels in a. novel and advantageous manner.

In supplying high heels for the shoes of women, the custom heretofore has been tofashion the body of the heel out of layers of leather, nailed or glued together; or out of wood, covered with leather, or celluloid, or cloth, to match with the upper. Such leather and covered wooden heels, however, are quite expensive; and wooden heels ne cessitate the turning out of the heel through the instrumentality of a lathe, or other machine, in a woodworking shop; and, when the heel has received its shape, the covering of the heel with leather or some other substance, preparatory to its delivery to the shoe manufacturer, who attaches it to the shoe in the required position. This requires very often the shoe manufacturer to wait for the heels.

By my invention a more substantial heel may be produced than a separate covered wooden heel. and can be begun and finished directly in the shoe factory (being part of the shoe) during its manufacture; without requiring wood-working machinery, and will be light, durable and resilient, and therefore constitute a very superior article.

The above-mentioned and other objects and advantages or my improvement are set following description, together with the accompanying drau'dngs, which illustrate one embodiment of my invention. This disclosure, however, is illustrative only; and embodiments of my inventive idea other than that actually shown herein may of course be resorted to, within the limits indicated by the general terms in which the claims are expressed and by the variations in the phrasing of the same.

On the drawings z- Figure 1 shows in side elevation a shoe to which is afiixed a heel made according to an second or third section,

embodiment of my invention, in its initial stage, with the parts making up the heel assembled in the rough;

Fig. 9 shows a side view of a shoe having such a heel after the heel has been worked into shape;

Fig. 3 is a side view of a shoe having such a heel in finished form;

Fig. 4 is a vertical, longitudinal, sectional view of the heel shown in Fig. 8, and the adjacent part of the shoe carrying it;

Fig. 5 is a. vertical, longitudinal, sectional view of a slightly modified form;

Fig. 6 is avertical transverse section along the lines 6 6 of Fig. 4; and

Fig. 7 is a plan view of the heel with the top piece removed.

The same characters parts throughout.

Referring to the drawings, a shoe 1 is pro vided with a sole 2 extending from the front end to the back; and to the rear end or heel seat 2 of the sole 2, I attach nails a number of superposed layers of leather-board. Thereafter, I attach to the first section, a depending upon the height, by nails, to make the heel 3. Previous to being attached to the sole of the shoe, the layers or sections are of course given substantially the peripheral shape of the heel in a general contour; and they will be of the approximate size required from top to bottom, dicated in Fig. l.

In Fig. 1 the layers are shown affixed to the heel seat by assembling the same in the rough; the heel seat at the beginning having its side and rear edges extended, as at 2*; and the layers or sections may be partly of leather and'partly of some other cheaper substance such as leather board, or entirely of leather board; which is made out of scraps of leather, and somewhatresembles pasteboard in appearance and properties. I begin by ailixing to the heel seat several layers of leather board. indicated by the numeral l, constituting the first section, and these are secured by driving nails by machine therethrough into the sole and clenching the nails in the same way'as in the case of heels comprising layers of leather only. On the leather board layers 4, I next place several layers of leather or leather board 5;

identify the same as will be understood, and as insilient and durable for all conditions of use. The'shoe repairer can readily repair the heel, by replacing layers and a new cover, thus readily matching the parts. In wooden heels, this cannot be done, as it takes sometimes a week to match a wooden heel.

It will be appreciated that my invention, by facilitating the manufacture of the heel in the factory where the other parts of the shoe are originated and put together, enables 'the various operations involved in shoe production to be more closely coordinated; and this fact is quite important to the manufacturer when the separate items making up the expense of operating a plant are taken into consideration.

I have described and illustrated preferred and satisfactory embodiments of my invention, but it is obvious that changes may be made therein, within the spirit and scope thereof, as described inthe appended claims.

I claim:

1. A method of making covered heels for shoes, which consists in attaching an uncovered heel to the shoe, applying a cover to said heel, and forcingthe upper edge of said cover tightly inward to form a substantially horizontal flange the lower surface of which is in close contact with the upper surface'of thr l -heel portion of the sole while the upper surface of said inturned flange is in close a contact with the lower surface of the counterportion of the upper, edge flange will be clamped in a substantially horizontal position, by and between the sole and the upper.

2. That step in the art which consists in assembling in the rough, directly upon the heel seat of the shoe and successively, a plurality of 'layers of leather material, then afli xing to the last-attached of said layers, a top layer of accurately predetermined shape, trimming the edges of the pre-' edges of the covering to provide a wearing surface for the heel.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN L. VAN NESS. Witnesses:

WM. Loonwooo,

L. E. J AGER.

whereby said upper. 

